Triticites pinguis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TriticitesPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 293.52 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Triticites pinguis on record, most of them in the Permian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
4 occurrences- Carboniferous25%
- Permian75%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Triticites pinguis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Triticites pinguis and its relatives
PermianWhere Triticites pinguis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Paraschwagerina kansasensis3 sites
- Triticites uddeni3 sites
- Neospirifer dunbari2 sites
- Triticites subventricosus2 sites
- Composita subtilita1 site
- Derbyia buchi1 site
- Echinauris boulei1 site
- Enteletes wolfcampensis1 site
- Heteralosia hystricula1 site
- Hustedia mormoni1 site
- Hystriculina1 site
- Kozlowskia capaci1 site
- Limbella wolfcampensis1 site
- Linoproductus cora1 site
- Meekella striatocostata1 site
- Meekella texana1 site
- Neochonetes1 site
- Orthotetella wolfcampensis1 site
- Parenteletes cooperi1 site
- Productus semistriatus1 site
- Pustula1 site
- Reticulariina1 site
- Reticulatia1 site
- Schwagerina dunbarinellaformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Triticites pinguis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- The geology of Texas, volume III. Upper Paleozoic ammonites and fusulinids, part 2. Permian Fusulinidae of Texas3
- Pennsylvanian-Permian Fusulinaceans of the Big Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico1
Each of the 4 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Triticites pinguis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Triticites pinguis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTriticites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dunbar and Skinner 1937